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4th April 2023

Photoset reblogged from #SOSBrutalism with 129 notes

sosbrutalism:

The shape of the Boston City Hall popularized the phenotype based clearly on La Tourette, that was to be encountered in similar shapes the world over (#LaTouretteType): It can be read as a temple missing its gable. 

Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles / Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty: Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1962–1968

https://sosbrutalism.org/cms/15891257 

Photos: Boston City Archives 2013 (CC BY 2.0) / Ernst Halberstadt / U.S. National Archives (CC BY 2.0) / Ron Gilbert 1985 (CC BY-ND 2.0) / Bill Lebovic / Library of Congress 1981 (public domain) / Peter Miller 2013 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / See-ming Lee 2010 (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Gunnar Klack 2018 (CC BY-SA 2.0) 

This building takes a lot of shit, and honestly it deserves it – I don’t know how on earth they managed to make brutalism both tediously historicist and busy

Tagged: architecture

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